Organization Roles

Users can be belong to one or more organizations. A user’s organization membership is tied to a role that defines what the user is allowed to do in that organization.

Admin Role

Can do everything scoped to the organization. For example:

Add & Edit data sources.

Add & Edit organization users & teams.

Configure App plugins & set org settings.

Editor Role

Can create and modify dashboards & alert rules. This can be disabled on specific folders and dashboards.

Cannot create or edit data sources nor invite new users.

Viewer Role

View any dashboard. This can be disabled on specific folders and dashboards.

Cannot create or edit dashboards nor data sources.

This role can be tweaked via Grafana server setting viewers_can_edit. If you set this to true users with Viewer can also make transient dashboard edits, meaning they can modify panels & queries but not save the changes (nor create new dashboards). Useful for public Grafana installations where you want anonymous users to be able to edit panels & queries but not save or create new dashboards.